2019 Year 12 IB Extended Essays

29 surveillance system, that collects data from individual citizens, such as their bank details, their license plate, computer details, and browsing history. These are often paired with photos of the citizen in question, for easier identification by CCTV cameras with facial recognition. These cameras can recognise unlawful acts, and identify the citizen in order to issue demerits. Appendix 8: These freedoms are being severely limited, to the point that some people, for example Chinese journalist Liu Hu, who has become trapped in his own village as a result of losing a defamation lawsuit in 2015 (Xiuzhong Xu and Xiao, 2018). He is unable to stay in star-rated hotels, buy a house or mortgage, travel on planes or trains, or send his nine-year-old daughter to a private school. This is a complete misuse of personal information for the government’s convenience, and as a result, Mr Hu has lost almost all of his freedoms as a citizen of China. Appendix 9: For example, the knowledge developed within the Renaissance has allowed generations of great writers, artists, theatre practitioners, and musicians to thrive, and the world we live in today sits on a rich cultural history, that has allowed for the creative aspect of our society to flourish. In more modern-day society, this has spilled over onto many different sectors of society, such as education – with examples such as children’s picture books allowing children of young ages to begin contemplating large issues through morals in stories. From the separation of the Church and State, humans have developed multiple different types of governments to suit every different nation. This has allowed for research and discussion into which type of government would most benefit humans across the world, which wouldn’t have been possible, had we not developed the systems to test first. Almost